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20 de out. de 2022 · Until Liz Truss, George Canning was the shortest-serving prime minister. He needn’t be forgotten by pub quizzers, general knowledge collectors and historians alike. In 1973, Richard Luckett ...
George Canning, (born April 11, 1770, London, Eng.—died Aug. 8, 1827, Chiswick, near London), British politician. As a young man, he came under the influence of William Pitt, who helped him win a seat in Parliament (1793) and a post as undersecretary for foreign affairs (1796–99). Canning served twice as foreign secretary (1807–09, 1822 ...
George Canning (11 de abril de 1770 - 8 de agosto de 1827) foi um político britânico, que serviu como secretário de estado dos negócios estrangeiros e, brevemente, como primeiro ministro do Reino Unido.
29 de mai. de 2017 · George Canning: The four-month pistol-packing PM. He was prime minister for just 119 days before his death in office in 1827, killed by a severe bout of pneumonia, not by the gunshot wound ...
27 de abr. de 2024 · Biography. George Canning was a member of the City of London Police team which won the sixth and last Olympic Tug-of-War title in 1920. In Antwerp, the London policemen beat the USA, Belgium and Holland in two straight pulls and the British victory occupied, in total, less than two and a half minutes. Canning resigned from the police force in ...
George Canning. Wendy Hinde. Collins, 1973 - Biography & Autobiography - 519 pages. "George Canning PC, FRS (11 April 1770? 8 August 1827) was a British statesman and politician who served as Foreign Secretary and briefly Prime Minister ... Rory Muir has described Canning as "the most brilliant and colourful minister, and certainly the greatest ...
1878. Canning, George, an author, an Irishman, appears to have taken his degree of B.A. at the University of Dublin in 1754. His father, a gentleman of property in the north of Ireland, disinherited him for marrying, in 1768, Miss Costello, a dowerless beauty. George Canning was the author of some poems, and of a translation of Anti-Lucretius.
